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hi Rick,

On 1/16/2012 4:12 PM, rick baird wrote:
In the last 2 or 3 years, we've had an ongoing problem with overlay
and/or laser output shifting out of alignment at some of our client
sites.


Yes, in my experience, overlays printed through Host Print Transform tend to print in different positions, depending on the particular MFRTYPMDL specified.

In one of my programs, I have worked around it as follows...

The DDS for the PRTF has this:

A OVERLAY(MYLIB/INVOICE -
A &PROVLDWN &PROVLACS)

(Mine is done via DDS, though you could do the same thing via parameters on CRTPRTF, CHGPRTF or OVRPRTF if you prefer.)

Then my RPG code does this:

prOvlDwn = 0;
prOvlAcs = 0.25;

if (wkDev = 'PRT06');
prOvlDwn = 0.167;
endif;

So, for some devices, the "down" position is 0, and others it's 0.167. This makes it line up in both cases. Sadly, I have it hard-coding the device names of the devices that need a different offset (there's probably a better way, but I haven't found it yet.)

My suggestion to you, therefore, is to make this "down" position configurable. Ask your customer to do a test print, and if it's not lined up, then change the down position and try again. If your overlay position is specified via CRTPRTF like this:

CRTPRTF FILE(myfile) FRONTOVL(myoverlay 0 0)

Then your instructions to the customer might be as simple as saying "if the overlay doesn't line up, then type this command:
CHGPRTF FILE(myfile) FRONTOVL(myoverlay 0.167 0)"

If you find a better solution, please let me know... because this is a frustration of mine.

-SK

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